VentureBeat’s MG Siegler reported Monday that Apple may be pushing their “Push” notification system aside; in favor of allowing some background operations to run in the background on the iPhone. This rumor comes partly from MacRumors, but Siegler notes that he has heard whispers about this himself.
Most tech bloggers have said that barring background operations was a mistake and most likely would have to be revisited – Especially since the “Push” system was supposed to have been launched 5 months ago. Apple backtracked on releasing it to the public until they “got it right.” Steve Jobs and Apple have always aid that background ops. sucked up too much battery life and given the heavy web-surfing, video watching the iPhone allows, battery life was the reason for moving to this push notification software update.